User talk:Mathbot
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[edit] Automated message to bot owners
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[edit] u looks funny
LOL!!!!!!
Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Good job on your contributions Mathbot; I hope you get artificial intelligence when it's invented. -Amarkov moo! 03:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] filling in redlinks
I certainly hope this edit is not typical of Mathbot's filling in of redlinks in the math section. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
- Good bot, bad owner. You are right, I misread that one (hopefully it is an exception). Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:31, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2008 January 19
The mathbot has just counted the open discussions in this log down to zero[1], but that isn't correct. --Tikiwont (talk) 10:04, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] RfA stats
The bot posted the wrong users stats to Coppertwig's RfA here and here, thought you ought to know. Adam McCormick (talk) 01:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- This fixed it. The bot did not expect "User11" there. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- Strange issue. Thanks for the quick response. Adam McCormick (talk) 03:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Suggestion.
I see Mathbot compiles the tables of article status at Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics.
Right now it links to articles according to either quality or importance. Could it be modified to link to a specific quality and importance? For example, if I'm interested in improved stubs of high importance, I can either click on High (35 of 366 are of stub-class) or on stubs (35 of 3787 are high importance). Or if I want to assess the quality of low-importance articles, I'd have to go through at best 488 low-importance article rather than 14.
I can explain more if that was not clear. Thank you.Headbomb (ταλκ · κοντριβς) 07:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I think you are referring to User:WP 1.0 bot rather than mathbot. The feature you request is not supported. I am quite pressed for time recently, and can't implement it, I am also not sure how crucial it is. If you wish, you can try requesting this feature at WT:1.0/I and see if somebody would be willing to implement it. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Another counting issue at RFA
Hey Oleg, we have another RFA that tripped Mathbot up. The edit count was posted to the talk page of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Arienh4 here, but appears entirely blank. Wannabe Kate returns results here, so it doesn't look like a mis-spelled username. Thought I'd give you a heads up. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 19:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- I'll look into this quite soon. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:42, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- No problem, nor urgency; thanks for having a look. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 13:02, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- w3m was missing on the wp:toolserver. Replacing that with the lynx web browser fixed the issue. Thanks for pointing this out! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 14:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- No problem, nor urgency; thanks for having a look. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 13:02, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Talk:List of statistics topics
Can you help me figure out why this list is soooooo long? Talk:List of statistics topics#E: Articles in List of statistics topics not in categories Thanks—G716 <T·C> 17:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Edit summary
Something's wrong with this tool:
It consistently shows my minor edit summaries at 79-80%, which isn't true. I have my preferences set to warn me if I forget an edit summary, so I always do it, and have done it for a long time. -- Fyslee / talk 06:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Arbcom Elections 2008
Good afternoon, Oleg. It's a slow day for me today, so I'm running through my checklist of Arbcom Election items for next month's voting. I know Mathbot has updated voting data for the last three elections, and I wanted to check and see if you planned to run it again this time around. If that's the case, is there any assistance I can provide in formatting vote pages / setting up templates / etc? Thanks in advance, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 18:12, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- Cross posting to your talk as well - thought that's where I was. See also WP:TWWPK. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 18:13, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] No content in Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles has been empty for at least four days, and its only content has been links to parent categories. (CSD C1).
To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:Unassessed-Class Geography of Canada articles, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 22:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] AfD pages header
What about:
<div class="boilerplate metadata vfd" style="background-color: #F3F9FF; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 1px 0 0; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; font-size:10px">
{| width = "100%"
|-
! width="33%" align="left" | <font color="gray"><</font> [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 February 3|3 February]]
! width="34%" align="center"| Discussions scheduled to run until at least 9 February 2009.
! width="33%" align="right" | [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 February 5|5 February]] <font color="gray">></font>
|}
</div>
| < 3 February | Discussions scheduled to run until at least 9 February 2009. | 5 February > |
|---|
instead of the current:
| < 3 February | 5 February > |
|---|---|
| Discussions scheduled to run until at least 9 February 2009. | |
Looks better IMO. MrKIA11 (talk) 23:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Photo-tagging?
Hi: I've been going through and adding pictures to mathematician bio articles. It would help a lot if a bot could go through all mathematician articles and put a {{reqphoto}} tag on the ones that don't have any photos on them. Then I could use the lists over at Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics/Lists to identify pages instead of going through them manually. Is this possible? Thanks, Ray (talk) 15:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] List of mathematics articles (0–9)
attention, someone moved the article from 0-9 to 0–9, now you're making your changes to the redirect page
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_mathematics_articles_(0%E2%80%939)&action=history
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_mathematics_articles_(0-9)&action=history
--134.34.224.102 (talk) 12:35, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
